Sacks and Sacks, LLP, New York (Scott N. Singer of counsel), for respondent.

Andrias, J.P., Friedman, Moskowitz, DeGrasse, Feinman, JJ.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Kenneth L. Thompson, Jr., J.), entered on or about December 4, 2012, which, insofar as appealed from, denied defendants' motion to transfer venue from Bronx County to New York County, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff was injured in a construction-site accident that occurred in New York County, and he commenced the instant action in Bronx County based on the residence of defendant Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (see e.g. Rodriguez v Port Auth. of N.Y. & N.J., 293 A.D.2d 325 [1st Dept 2002]). In support of the motion to change the venue pursuant to CPLR 510(3), defendants submitted an affidavit from a safety manager employed at the construction site by a nonparty company. The witness stated that he prepared the report for plaintiff's accident, that he would be inconvenienced by having to travel to Bronx County because he lived in New Jersey, and that he worked six days per week at the site in lower Manhattan, and needed to be able to immediately respond to safety incidents.

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